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Started by Superheat, October 21, 2013, 10:35:07 PM

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Superheat

October 21, 2013, 10:35:07 PM
MAC66 entered the "design a ruger 10/22 contest".   He actually made the top 10!  Now he needs your vote to win.  You can vote once a day. (or more if you have computers on different modem lines)   Let's show our AS strength and push "GARY MICHIGAN" to victory!

http://appleseedinfo.org/smf/index.php?topic=38116.0

https://www.ruger.com/dataProcess/1022_50/

hawkhavn

#1
October 21, 2013, 10:43:30 PM
Done!  That was easy.

HH
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Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as "bad luck."
---Robert Anson Heinlein

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Mudcat

#2
October 21, 2013, 10:48:00 PM
Done
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government."
--George Washington

Johnnyappleseed

#4
October 21, 2013, 10:57:28 PM
Good luck Gary
I will forward the link to others .
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brianheeter

#5
October 21, 2013, 11:07:20 PM
Done!
(refuse to) Kiss the Ring!

slim

#6
October 21, 2013, 11:07:48 PM
Done.

I like that one and I like the gold one. Updated style and classic style. I'd buy both!

SteelThunder

#7
October 21, 2013, 11:15:07 PM
Quote from: slim on October 21, 2013, 11:07:48 PM
Done.

I like that one and I like the gold one. Updated style and classic style. I'd buy both!

Heck slim, if that's your taste then you're all ready to step it up a bit.

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mac66

#8
October 21, 2013, 11:21:06 PM
Thanks guys. I just got back from a Libertyseed and had no idea I was in the top ten. I think the grand prize winner gets $5K worth of Ruger guns. I'm thinking that if I win I will donate one I pick to raffle off as fund raiser for Libertyseed. Vote early and vote often.
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Motivation?...The best solution to morale problems is to kill all the unhappy people  Ghenghis Khan

Quinncannon

#9
October 21, 2013, 11:37:42 PM
I voted for you Mac, but how about a rifle with an even longer barrel?
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Pitmaster

#10
October 22, 2013, 12:22:22 AM Last Edit: October 28, 2013, 05:39:37 PM by Pitmaster
You can also vote from other devices if its more convenient.
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Roundballer

#11
October 22, 2013, 12:56:28 AM
Done!  (for today, Monday)

For those of you that do that "Facebook" thing, you have a task to set up a fire mission.  Barrage that vote, FIRE FOR EFFECT.   :---

SteelThunder

#12
October 22, 2013, 05:16:36 AM
Quote from: mac66 on October 21, 2013, 11:21:06 PM
Thanks guys. I just got back from a Libertyseed and had no idea I was in the top ten. I think the grand prize winner gets $5K worth of Ruger guns. I'm thinking that if I win I will donate one I pick to raffle off as fund raiser for Libertyseed. Vote early and vote often.

As a top 10 guy, you at minimum get one Ruger firearm  of your choice.  I think you should get one of the new 7.62 AR platform rifles then donate it to the Warlord of the West for research purposes.  You know...for science...and stuff.
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"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil; God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart." - Tecumseh
"Never attribute to treachery, that which can adequately be explained by incompetence" - Bonaparte, Hanlon, et al

Mudcat

#13
October 22, 2013, 09:59:33 AM
Hit again for Monday.  Will find wifi later and hit it again.
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--George Washington

Uncle Davey

#14
October 22, 2013, 10:27:00 AM
Had to vote..he's a Michigan man!
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TomM1Thumb

#15
October 22, 2013, 01:44:11 PM
Done, Cause He is an Appleseed Instructor, a Friend, and because His design, can be used as a Appleseed LTR!!!!!


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Rascal21

#16
October 22, 2013, 03:26:53 PM
I don't think that's a good idea! Who knows if the Warlord of the West will share the new toy...

%)

Quote from: SteelThunder on October 22, 2013, 05:16:36 AM
Quote from: mac66 on October 21, 2013, 11:21:06 PM
Thanks guys. I just got back from a Libertyseed and had no idea I was in the top ten. I think the grand prize winner gets $5K worth of Ruger guns. I'm thinking that if I win I will donate one I pick to raffle off as fund raiser for Libertyseed. Vote early and vote often.

As a top 10 guy, you at minimum get one Ruger firearm  of your choice.  I think you should get one of the new 7.62 AR platform rifles then donate it to the Warlord of the West for research purposes.  You know...for science...and stuff.

number6

#17
October 22, 2013, 06:15:52 PM
Quote from: SteelThunder on October 22, 2013, 05:16:36 AM
Quote from: mac66 on October 21, 2013, 11:21:06 PM
Thanks guys. I just got back from a Libertyseed and had no idea I was in the top ten. I think the grand prize winner gets $5K worth of Ruger guns. I'm thinking that if I win I will donate one I pick to raffle off as fund raiser for Libertyseed. Vote early and vote often.

As a top 10 guy, you at minimum get one Ruger firearm  of your choice.  I think you should get one of the new 7.62 AR platform rifles then donate it to the Warlord of the West for research purposes.  You know...for science...and stuff.

Now if you want emperical, evidence-based sciencey research  you need to get an engineer to do the research, hey, I'm one of those.  But if you want touchy-feely marketing research, then by all means send it west. 

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mac66

#18
October 22, 2013, 07:46:34 PM Last Edit: October 28, 2013, 08:29:31 PM by mac66
Well since I get to chose one Ruger firearm, I think I will chose a 10/22, no wait...maybe a GSR, no wait, maybe the SR762, no wait, maybe I don't know yet

Even the grand prize winner would be no match for the Warlord of the West.
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
Ronald Reagan

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers

The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience."  Patrick Henry, 1765

Motivation?...The best solution to morale problems is to kill all the unhappy people  Ghenghis Khan

SteelThunder

#19
October 22, 2013, 07:49:46 PM
Quote from: number6 on October 22, 2013, 06:15:52 PM
Quote from: SteelThunder on October 22, 2013, 05:16:36 AM
Quote from: mac66 on October 21, 2013, 11:21:06 PM
Thanks guys. I just got back from a Libertyseed and had no idea I was in the top ten. I think the grand prize winner gets $5K worth of Ruger guns. I'm thinking that if I win I will donate one I pick to raffle off as fund raiser for Libertyseed. Vote early and vote often.

As a top 10 guy, you at minimum get one Ruger firearm  of your choice.  I think you should get one of the new 7.62 AR platform rifles then donate it to the Warlord of the West for research purposes.  You know...for science...and stuff.

Now if you want emperical, evidence-based sciencey research  you need to get an engineer to do the research, hey, I'm one of those.  But if you want touchy-feely marketing research, then by all means send it west. 

number6

I'll have you know that I'm in Step 11 of my Engineering Recovery Process. It's nearly been beaten out of me but there's still a small ember somewhere...
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Ultima vox civis
"Learning occurs only after repetitive, demoralizing failures." - Pat Rogers
"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil; God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart." - Tecumseh
"Never attribute to treachery, that which can adequately be explained by incompetence" - Bonaparte, Hanlon, et al

Whippet

#20
October 22, 2013, 09:37:14 PM Last Edit: October 29, 2013, 09:34:08 AM by Whippet
Voted
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hawkhavn

#21
October 22, 2013, 09:41:37 PM
Done and bumped!

HH
Criticism is the only known antidote to error.  David Brin

What a nation has done, a nation can aspire to.
Dr. Jerry Pournelle

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as "bad luck."
---Robert Anson Heinlein

"Great things have been effected by a few men well conducted." - George Rogers Clark

"Appleseed is a safe place to learn because they care. They have the confidence and serenity of spring gardeners." 1IV on AR15.com

Oz

#22
October 22, 2013, 09:52:01 PM
Quote from: SteelThunder on October 22, 2013, 05:16:36 AM
Quote from: mac66 on October 21, 2013, 11:21:06 PM
Thanks guys. I just got back from a Libertyseed and had no idea I was in the top ten. I think the grand prize winner gets $5K worth of Ruger guns. I'm thinking that if I win I will donate one I pick to raffle off as fund raiser for Libertyseed. Vote early and vote often.

As a top 10 guy, you at minimum get one Ruger firearm  of your choice.  I think you should get one of the new 7.62 AR platform rifles then donate it to the Warlord of the West for research purposes.  You know...for science...and stuff.

Being as the WotW is currently leader of the Sunset Coast Expeditionary Force on detached service, feel free to send it to me and I'll be certain he gets it.  Just don't speak to him about it, ever.  He will be embarrassed by your generosity and too shy to speak.  Just enjoy the quiet assurance that my your rifle is in my good hands.
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Viator

#23
October 23, 2013, 08:55:47 PM
Voted yesterday, voted today, will vote again tomorrow!
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mac66

#24
October 24, 2013, 09:55:08 AM Last Edit: October 24, 2013, 09:57:34 AM by mac66
FYI,  Just talked to the people at Ruger and they emailed me the paperwork to pick my choice of a firearm.  I have not chosen yet but the guy mentioned that every finalist picked the same one.  Can anyone guess what it is?

What would you pick?

BTW, no prizes until after the grand prize winner is chosen but they are guessing that the non-grand prize winners will have their guns before Christmas maybe even by the end of November.
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
Ronald Reagan

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers

The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience."  Patrick Henry, 1765

Motivation?...The best solution to morale problems is to kill all the unhappy people  Ghenghis Khan

Superheat

#25
October 24, 2013, 01:02:10 PM Last Edit: October 28, 2013, 07:56:30 PM by Superheat
SR-762.

Get back to voting!!!!  I want a 10/22 that I don't have to overhaul. 

Be sure to vote!

308LIBERTY

#26
October 24, 2013, 01:03:05 PM
I like the Gunsight Scout Rifle but I imagine the SR-762 will be the popular choice.
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mac66

#27
October 24, 2013, 03:24:33 PM Last Edit: October 28, 2013, 08:30:49 PM by mac66
Quote from: Superheat on October 24, 2013, 01:02:10 PM
SR-762.

Get back to voting!!!!  I want a 10/22 that I don't have to overhaul. 



Thanks SH. Keep pushing the vote   ~~:)   ^-^

BTW the other nine finalists all picked the  SR 762 from what the contest guy said. I will probably make it unanimous.  ..:..

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
Ronald Reagan

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers

The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience."  Patrick Henry, 1765

Motivation?...The best solution to morale problems is to kill all the unhappy people  Ghenghis Khan

Viator

#28
October 25, 2013, 06:41:05 PM
By the way, Ruger's asking for feedback on three additional designs that "could influence another future Ruger product." "Robert in Vermont" is absolutely running away with that competition - 58% of the vote, currently - for his M1 Carbine design! Needless to say, I cast my vote for that one, too...

https://www.ruger.com/micros/1022_50/images/finalists/essay_1953.jpg
"They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~ Ben Franklin

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." ~ George Mason

Caliper

#29
October 25, 2013, 09:13:56 PM
Been voting every day.  Mac, you're really moving up!  Only one percent to go for the lead! 

Really like the M1 carbine clone in the "best of the rest" voting.  Hey, that would make a good LTR also! 
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